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Italian Modernism: Balla to Boetti

Past exhibition
3 November - 22 December 2006
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Alighiero Boetti (i) Per nuovi desideri (For new wishes); (ii) Ammazzare il tempo (To kill time); (iii)Non parto non resto (I am not leaving; I am not staying); (iv) Pisciarsi in bocca (To pee in your own mouth); (v) Il dolce far niente (Doing sweet nothing); (vi) Il certo e l'incerto (The certain and the uncertain); (vii) Udire tra le parole (To read between the lines {to hear between the words}); (viii) Immaginando tutto (Imagining everything); (ix) Segno e disegno (Sign and drawing), 1979 Watercolor and pencil on paper, nine sheets (i) 7 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (19 x 18.7 cm); (ii) 7 3/8 x 7 1/4 in. (18.7 x 18.4 cm); (iii) 7 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (19.7 x 19.7 cm); (iv) 7 3/8 x 7 1/4 in. (18.7 x 18.4 cm); (v) 7 5/8 x 7 3/4 in. (19.4 x 19.7 cm); (vi) 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (19 x 19 cm); (vii) 7 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (18.4 x 19 cm); (viii) 7 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (19.7 x 19.7 cm); (ix) 7 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (19.4 x 19 cm); Each signed with the artist's initials and inscribed "AEB HC". Each work is registered individually in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti Rome under numbers: 3503, 3504, 3505, 3506, 3507, 3508, 3509, 3510, 3511. Each framed: 8 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (21.9 x 21.9 cm)
Alighiero Boetti
(i) Per nuovi desideri (For new wishes); (ii) Ammazzare il tempo (To kill time); (iii)Non parto non resto (I am not leaving; I am not staying); (iv) Pisciarsi in bocca (To pee in your own mouth); (v) Il dolce far niente (Doing sweet nothing); (vi) Il certo e l'incerto (The certain and the uncertain); (vii) Udire tra le parole (To read between the lines {to hear between the words}); (viii) Immaginando tutto (Imagining everything); (ix) Segno e disegno (Sign and drawing), 1979
Watercolor and pencil on paper, nine sheets
(i) 7 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (19 x 18.7 cm); (ii) 7 3/8 x 7 1/4 in. (18.7 x 18.4 cm); (iii) 7 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (19.7 x 19.7 cm); (iv) 7 3/8 x 7 1/4 in. (18.7 x 18.4 cm); (v) 7 5/8 x 7 3/4 in. (19.4 x 19.7 cm); (vi) 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (19 x 19 cm); (vii) 7 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (18.4 x 19 cm); (viii) 7 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (19.7 x 19.7 cm); (ix) 7 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (19.4 x 19 cm); Each signed with the artist's initials and inscribed "AEB HC". Each work is registered individually in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti Rome under numbers: 3503, 3504, 3505, 3506, 3507, 3508, 3509, 3510, 3511.
Each framed: 8 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (21.9 x 21.9 cm)
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